The Outtakes: Photographs You Didn't See in The Human Fragment

September 24, 2014 9:40 PM

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I had been shooting The Human Fragment project for over two years when I received the news from Brooklyn Arts Press that they would be publishing it as a book. I was excited. I was also naive about mainstream book publishing. It would not only be the long drawn out timetables (equivalent to the building of Rome) that would disappoint, but the editing process would also be a lot of "not fun".

I knew the more than 2000 photographs I had taken for the project would not appear in the book. This was a given. I even knew that the final count would likely be around 50-70 images. What I didn't know is how painful it would be to stand over a sea of prints and toss them, one by one, to the floor ...